Patrick Tarrant

Patrick Tarrant

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Patrick Tarrant (b. 1969), a film director, researcher and lecturer at London South Bank University, comes from Melbourne, Australia. He authored portraits of prominent filmmakers such as Pedro Costa or Ben Rivers as well as meditative films and film essays inspired by the atmosphere of cities and their peripheries (The Take-Up, 2014; The Trembling Giant, 2016).

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Merlin Horse 2025

Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse (1970) is reimagined for a time of AI-enabled editing software and digital-analogue hybridity. Looping and phasing in Le Grice’s film are replaced with a concern for masking and speed.
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Patient’s Copy 2020

A hand-made reflection on the underconscious and on the illustration of ideas on plastic.
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Frankston 2020

Frankston is a study of the place I grew up, a satellite of Melbourne with affordable housing, nature-strips and beach views. The downright ordinary nature of the opportunities and festivities afforded by Frankston, and the ambivalence one can feel going back there, nonetheless give rise to a new aesthetic: the suburban symphony. In this case the symphony is rendered in strange hues and luminescences as though affirming Robin Boyd’s depiction of ‘the Australian ugliness’ in 1960, where he claims that “taste has become so dulled and calloused that anything which can startle a response on jaded retinas is deemed successful.”